Canada Post’s new Diwali stamp created with help of BC business owner – Maple Ridge News

A Vancouver resident, Sharma runs Surrey-based KVP Entertainers, which stages local concerts and produces television shows.

“A lotus flower, symbolic of new beginnings, forms both the outline and inset of the rangoli,” the website notes.

Rangolis are an important part of Diwali celebrations. Drawn on floors in entranceways, living rooms and courtyards using flower petals, coloured sand and other materials, these temporary works of art are traditionally created to invite Lakshmi, the goddess of good fortune, into celebrants’ homes.

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